--- title: By this means they were able to meet without losing sight of the fir… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: By this means they were able to meet without losing sight of the fire or of the two bottles in which the old Fairy kept her eye and her tooth at night, and for some time the lovers enjoyed every hour of sunshine together. Who acts: this, rays, old Fairy, lovers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, rays, old Fairy, lovers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:23:79 # text = By this means they were able to meet without losing sight of the fire or of the two bottles in which the old Fairy kept her eye and her tooth at night, and for some time the lovers enjoyed every hour of sunshine together. 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 without without SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 bottles bottle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 lovers lover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 together together ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | this | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | rays *= ray* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | rays *= ray* *not said here* | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lose** | gerund | rays *= ray* *not said here* | sight of the fire or the two bottles | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | | 5 | **keep** | past | the old Fairy | heroine's eye | | the two bottles | night | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme in which=Location | | 6 | **enjoy** | past | the lovers | | | | hour; time | together *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **sight** | | | the fire or the two bottles | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/80/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/)